How to set up a Raspberry Pi Plex server

In this article, I’ll show you how to set up Plex Media Server on the Raspberry Pi. So one of the problems with the digital age is storing large amounts of data here and there, especially media files, which are always painful when you play your favorite songs on your home computer, and you cannot really access it or interact with any Other people from any other part of the house, unless you go down where it is. All these special types of problems and other similar problems are the ones Plex is trying to solve. In this tutorial, we will install a Plex server on your Raspberry Pi to give you unlimited, unrestricted access to the media library.

Plex Server Introduction:-

A Plex is a client-server media player system that has a Plex server to provide all media files and one Plex client to access or stream all media files from the server.

Plex Media Server runs on many operating systems such as Windows, MacOS and Linux. Plex can organize all the media files, whether it is music, movies, photos, shows, or posters and thumbnails, you can also display scores and other things from online services.so here it we will be going to use Raspberry Pi as a Plex server.

Media players are clients that run on client devices (such as mobile devices, computers, etc.). Clients can access media files from the Plex server.

Plex Home Media Server lets you keep all your media files in one place and access them from any and all other devices. You can access data from all your favorite devices such as Web, Android Smartphone, Apple, Amazon Fire TV, iOS, Windows, Xbox, PlayStation, Chromecast, Smart TV and more. Plex Client supports all of these devices.

In this article, we will create a Plex server on Raspberry Pi. You will be able to upload media files to a connected storage device (USB pen drive or external HD) and then transfer the media from the server to any other device, whether it is a cell phone or a connected computer. This can be a very useful tool as it helps you manage space well on all other devices and make it easy to share with friends and family.

Collect Hardware

In this raspberry pi server article, we use Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspbian Jessie OS. All basic hardware and software requirements are discussed earlier, and you can find it in the Raspberry Pi profile.

So here I assume you are familiar with Raspberry Pi and know how to access your raspberry pi via terminal software like putty. A lot of assumptions are correct? Yes, but these are basic things you can learn from our previous raspberry pi project.

We will gradually implement the Plex server on Raspberry Pi and take them seriously, this project is just like a charm.

This will take you to the Plex web application. Log in (or create an account). Plex briefly tells you how things work, and then gives you the option to add a library. Continue: Choose the correct media type, navigate to your file, and choose the folder you want to add.

Step 10: Connect to your server from the client device

Plex also makes this part easy. Open a Plex application from a client device on the same network and Plex will test your server for you. If you have not used a web application to claim and populate your server, you will have access to the claim once it is discovered by your application.